RASF1 - Hungary

Noon eastern Server: RASF1 through F1rst 30% race, normal tire and fuel Aids allowed:stability, auto-shift, traction control, pit lane, clutch 20 minutes practice, then qualify(12 laps max). Have fun! Eldred -- Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

[email hidden] (EldredP) wrote in news:[email hidden]: > Noon eastern > Have fun! > > Eldred Bad luck, I won't be able to make it this week. :-( I don't like Hungary anyway... roll on Monza, Indy, Suzuka!

Which exe will you be using? NoCD or standard? If noCD, does it use the same name as the normal exe or is it something like F1xxxxxxnoCD.exe? I'm pretty sure F1RST requires the exe's to match, so I need to know before the race starts. "EldredP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Noon eastern > Server: RASF1 through F1rst > 30% race, normal tire and fuel > Aids allowed:stability, auto-shift, traction control, pit lane, clutch > 20 minutes practice, then qualify(12 laps max). > Have fun! > > Eldred > -- > Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett > > Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

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>[email hidden] (EldredP) wrote in >news:[email hidden]: > >> Noon eastern > >> Have fun! >> >> Eldred > >Bad luck, I won't be able to make it this week. :-( I don't like Hungary >anyway... roll on Monza, Indy, Suzuka!

Rats... Ok, see you at Monza. Eldred -- Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

Sorry for leaving you last two all alone - suspension was more bent than a hairdresser ;) I'm not sure why but my problem was hitting an extra downshift. I did it at T1L1 and scared myself to death. Was ok then for a while then did it again and caused some damage. I guess counting quickly from 7 to 2 backwards is not my forte. Wheel checks out ok - just brain farting on my part. Wasn't doing it during practice - weird. I was quite pleased with my qual - 16.3 in the Jag with no aids is good for me. Anyway .... thanks for organising it Eldred. Surprised more weren't there. The online experience in F1C seems pretty good once you get used to it. With a full field with guys of different pace (so everyone's got someone to race with) it should be really great. As I am one of those with a doubled up car, I was worried about depriving someone else of a place ;) C'mon in you guys - the water's fine :) Regards "EldredP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Noon eastern > Server: RASF1 through F1rst > 30% race, normal tire and fuel > Aids allowed:stability, auto-shift, traction control, pit lane, clutch > 20 minutes practice, then qualify(12 laps max). > Have fun! > > Eldred > -- > Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett > > Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

I had fun. I messed up on the start and had to go into the dirt at T1 to avoid hitting one of the Ferraris. Then eventually made it to first place after first through third had offs. Held onto it for a couple laps and then spun and broke off the front wing and RF wheel. Not sure why I spun, I have never spun at that section of track before. But I also did not have much practice at full fuel load, and then I found out I left OE running in the background. Most likely OE was refreshing when I spun. <kicks self> Anyway it was still fun while it lasted and I hope I can make the next one. Thanks for hosting, Eldred. "Neil Charlton" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:biarjt$t6a$[email hidden]... > Sorry for leaving you last two all alone - suspension was more bent than a > hairdresser ;) > > I'm not sure why but my problem was hitting an extra downshift. I did itat > T1L1 and scared myself to death. Was ok then for a while then did it again > and caused some damage. I guess counting quickly from 7 to 2 backwards is > not my forte. Wheel checks out ok - just brain farting on my part. Wasn't > doing it during practice - weird. I was quite pleased with my qual - 16.3in > the Jag with no aids is good for me. > > Anyway .... thanks for organising it Eldred. Surprised more weren't there. > The online experience in F1C seems pretty good once you get used to it.With > a full field with guys of different pace (so everyone's got someone torace > with) it should be really great. As I am one of those with a doubled upcar, > I was worried about depriving someone else of a place ;) > > C'mon in you guys - the water's fine :) > > Regards >

Well in case anyone else wanted to know, it doesn't matter. If it's not the same exe you just get a warning but you can still race. "Haqsau" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Which exe will you be using? NoCD or standard? If noCD, does it use the > same name as the normal exe or is it something like F1xxxxxxnoCD.exe? I'm > pretty sure F1RST requires the exe's to match, so I need to know beforethe > race starts. >

I think it had to be the full fuel load that got me also. Couldnt drive the thing so dam hvy. It was kinda strange yesterday while practicing on E's server. I was somehow turning 1.12's consistently. Before yesterday my PB was 1.17and today at practice I was in the 18's. Any ideas of how/why this was happening? I was thinkin it was cause I practiced on the RH2003 track that may have had some small diffs from the 02 track but todays times were much closer to reality on the 02 track. Could it be offline-online differneces? Mitch "Haqsau" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > I had fun. I messed up on the start and had to go into the dirt at T1 to > avoid hitting one of the Ferraris. Then eventually made it to first place > after first through third had offs. Held onto it for a couple laps andthen > spun and broke off the front wing and RF wheel. Not sure why I spun, Ihave > never spun at that section of track before. But I also did not have much > practice at full fuel load, and then I found out I left OE running in the > background. Most likely OE was refreshing when I spun. <kicks self> > Anyway it was still fun while it lasted and I hope I can make the nextone. > Thanks for hosting, Eldred. > > > "Neil Charlton" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:biarjt$t6a$[email hidden]... > > Sorry for leaving you last two all alone - suspension was more bent thana > > hairdresser ;) > > > > I'm not sure why but my problem was hitting an extra downshift. I did it > at > > T1L1 and scared myself to death. Was ok then for a while then did itagain > > and caused some damage. I guess counting quickly from 7 to 2 backwardsis > > not my forte. Wheel checks out ok - just brain farting on my part.Wasn't > > doing it during practice - weird. I was quite pleased with my qual -16.3 > in > > the Jag with no aids is good for me. > > > > Anyway .... thanks for organising it Eldred. Surprised more weren'tthere.

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> > The online experience in F1C seems pretty good once you get used to it. > With > > a full field with guys of different pace (so everyone's got someone to > race > > with) it should be really great. As I am one of those with a doubled up > car, > > I was worried about depriving someone else of a place ;) > > > > C'mon in you guys - the water's fine :) > > > > Regards > > > >

Neil Charlton wrote:

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> > Sorry for leaving you last two all alone - suspension was more bent than a > hairdresser ;) > > I'm not sure why but my problem was hitting an extra downshift. I did it at > T1L1 and scared myself to death. Was ok then for a while then did it again > and caused some damage. I guess counting quickly from 7 to 2 backwards is > not my forte. Wheel checks out ok - just brain farting on my part. Wasn't > doing it during practice - weird. I was quite pleased with my qual - 16.3 in > the Jag with no aids is good for me.

I have that problem too. Does F1C have a config file entry for neutral or reverse lockout? Perhaps allowing them only when the car is stopped?

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> Anyway .... thanks for organising it Eldred. Surprised more weren't there. > The online experience in F1C seems pretty good once you get used to it. With > a full field with guys of different pace (so everyone's got someone to race > with) it should be really great. As I am one of those with a doubled up car, > I was worried about depriving someone else of a place ;) > > C'mon in you guys - the water's fine :)

I've been doing alot of online racing using F1C's Gamespy facility, and I'm becoming skilled at getting out of people's way under the blue flag. It's amazing to watch a car I'm breaking to avoid burst forward 10 car lengths, or just ping out of existence. And evading a spun car while someone else just drives through it with no apparent ill effects is also fun to watch. My favorite is the cars floating 20 feet in the air above the starting grid at the race start. Another good one is having myself and two other cars share the same starting grid position. You don't see that on Speedvision. Are you treated to such sites when racing on a host that has a high speed connection to the Internet? How far flung are your drivers? Can people from the other side of the world compete smoothly? I'm wondering how much of these anomalies are caused by the inevitable pings, and how much is caused by the limits of cable modems. Anyway, I'm still waiting for a race replay file for one of your events. That would tell me a lot about whether I should offer my services as a backmarker. If you can send me a replay please post here, or email me first, I don't need 22 replay files in my mailbox. I've read that the smoothest replays are captured by the host, with the replay quality set to "Full", but I'd appreciate a replay file from anyone. Today's Hungor Thanks Larry

"Mitch_A" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Ez72b.1173$[email hidden]... > I think it had to be the full fuel load that got me also. Couldnt drivethe > thing so dam hvy.[snip] Could it be offline-online differneces? > Could be Mitch. I did an online race yesterday on the 2003RH. It definitely felt different today although I was in the BAR yesterday. However, if it's a choice between a sim idiosyncrasy and my personal stupidity, I fear I know which is the more likely ;) I guess the best thing about the RAS series is that we got a chance to iron out these weirdies before getting into serious stuff. cya next time

There was some nice racing there for awhile. I screwed up with my setup though. I had the setup wrong for most of qualifying, then added front wing which dropped my time and made the car handle MUCH better. Forgot to make the front wing change to the race setup though, and so struggled with understeer, especially through the s section. David G Fisher "Neil Charlton" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:biarjt$t6a$[email hidden]... > Sorry for leaving you last two all alone - suspension was more bent than a > hairdresser ;) > > I'm not sure why but my problem was hitting an extra downshift. I did itat > T1L1 and scared myself to death. Was ok then for a while then did it again > and caused some damage. I guess counting quickly from 7 to 2 backwards is > not my forte. Wheel checks out ok - just brain farting on my part. Wasn't > doing it during practice - weird. I was quite pleased with my qual - 16.3in > the Jag with no aids is good for me. > > Anyway .... thanks for organising it Eldred. Surprised more weren't there. > The online experience in F1C seems pretty good once you get used to it.With > a full field with guys of different pace (so everyone's got someone torace > with) it should be really great. As I am one of those with a doubled upcar,

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> I was worried about depriving someone else of a place ;) > > C'mon in you guys - the water's fine :) > > Regards > > "EldredP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > Noon eastern > > Server: RASF1 through F1rst > > 30% race, normal tire and fuel > > Aids allowed:stability, auto-shift, traction control, pit lane, clutch > > 20 minutes practice, then qualify(12 laps max). > > Have fun! > > > > Eldred > > -- > > Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett > > > > Remove SPAM-OFF to reply. > >

I somehow got the reverse lockout thing working. I believe all I had to do was assign a button to neutral. Once I did that the downshift button would not go below 1st. If I want reverse I have to hit the neutral button first, and then from reverse I have to hit neutral before I can get back into first. Somewhat annoying, but has undoubtedly saved my ass a few times. Now if I could just lock out 1st. ;o) "Larry Lindstrom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > > I have that problem too. Does F1C have a config file > entry for neutral or reverse lockout? Perhaps allowing > them only when the car is stopped? >

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> Sorry for leaving you last two all alone - suspension was more bent > than a hairdresser ;) > > I'm not sure why but my problem was hitting an extra downshift. I did > it at T1L1 and scared myself to death. Was ok then for a while then > did it again and caused some damage. I guess counting quickly from 7 > to 2 backwards is not my forte. Wheel checks out ok - just brain > farting on my part. Wasn't doing it during practice - weird. I was > quite pleased with my qual - 16.3 in the Jag with no aids is good for > me. > > Anyway .... thanks for organising it Eldred. Surprised more weren't > there. The online experience in F1C seems pretty good once you get > used to it. With a full field with guys of different pace (so > everyone's got someone to race with) it should be really great. As I > am one of those with a doubled up car, I was worried about depriving > someone else of a place ;) > > C'mon in you guys - the water's fine :) > > Regards

Sorry I missed it :( Sunday at 5PM UK time is not always good for me on F1 weekends, we have a late lunch at my Mums'. -- Ian P <email invalid due to spammers>

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> "Mitch_A" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:Ez72b.1173$[email hidden]... >> I think it had to be the full fuel load that got me also. Couldnt >> drive the thing so dam hvy. > [snip] > Could it be offline-online differneces? >> > > > Could be Mitch. I did an online race yesterday on the 2003RH. It > definitely felt different today although I was in the BAR yesterday. > However, if it's a choice between a sim idiosyncrasy and my personal > stupidity, I fear I know which is the more likely ;) I guess the best > thing about the RAS series is that we got a chance to iron out these > weirdies before getting into serious stuff. > > cya next time

To be that much faster I'd think you probably had the "speed bug". Leaving and reconnecting usually fixes it. -- Ian P <email invalid due to spammers>